Vasily Azhayev

Vasily Nikolayevich Azhayev (Russian: Васи́лий Никола́евич Ажа́ев; born February 12 [O.S. January 30] 1915 – April 27, 1968) was a Soviet and Russian writer, best known as the author of the novel Daleko ot Moskvy ("Далеко от Москвы"; Far from Moscow) (1948, Stalin Prize of 1949), which served as the basis for several eponymous film, stage and TV adaptations, and an opera.

Vasily Azhayev (in sunglasses) with Paul Wiens (left), Yevgeniy Dolmatovsky (right), and Grete Weiskopf, 1954

External links

• Vasily Azhayev at IMDb
• (in Russian) Biography
• Short Biography